Re: Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:03:31 +0100, Petr Baudis wrote:

Dear diary, on Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:37:31AM CET, I got a letter
where Andy Whitcroft [off-list ref] said that...

quoted

The g prefix on the sha1 _fragment_ it to indicate that it is in fact
a truncated sha1, not a complete one.

I think it's rather to indicate that it is a sha1 at all.

Frankly, I've never understood the 'g' prefix at all. I don't use
git-describe much, but some people have sent me things with this 'g'
on the front and every time I've received that I was annoyed to find
the commit identifier they sent didn't work until I manually removed
it.

It's definitely never provided any useful semantic information to me.

-Carl